[HN Gopher] Boss' Dilemma: Taking Responsibility Signals Coopera...
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       Boss' Dilemma: Taking Responsibility Signals Cooperation
        
       Author : KentBeck
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-02-08 17:05 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | jmathai wrote:
       | Alignment with your peers and leadership is paramount. The longer
       | I work, the more time and energy I spend making sure everyone is
       | rowing in the same direction. That seems to address many problems
       | before they come to exist.
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       | This is especially true when it involves cross organizational
       | folks with different priorities. I will spend the extra 30
       | minutes before a meeting to make sure that _my_ team is aligned.
       | Nothing is worse than the fallout of when disorganization and
       | lack of agreement make it outside of our team 's boundaries.
        
       | drewcoo wrote:
       | In the prisoners' dilemma, there is a mutual adversary plotting
       | to turn them against one another. In the prisoners' there is no
       | communication possible. Those are actually the key elements of
       | the puzzle!
       | 
       | Employer/employee relationships one would hope that there is open
       | communication and that there's not some agent trying to pit them
       | against each other.
       | 
       | I think the analysis breaks down right where it starts for work.
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       | I also think the author should seek counseling if they see work
       | that way. That's just a very unhealthy outlook.
        
         | harimau777 wrote:
         | From what I've seen, the problem is that if an employee
         | communicates their concerns to their boss, then their boss can
         | use that communication against them. E.g. by punishing them for
         | "not being a team player". In practice, a situation where no
         | communication is possible and a situation where it isn't safe
         | to communicate are very similar.
        
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